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1. National Consumers' League records, 1882-2003

   119,800 items. 288 containers plus 4 oversize. 116.4 linear feet. 127 microfilm reels. 130 digital files (1.35 MB). -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Organization founded in 1899 to monitor the conditions under which goods were manufactured and distributed. Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, speeches, project and program files, legal files, scrapbooks, printed material, and other records relating to the league's efforts toward reform in public health, consumer protection, public welfare, and fair labor standards.

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2. Henry Spira papers, 1906-2002

   120,000 items. 340 containers plus 6 oversize. 140 linear feet. 114 digital files (3.84 GB). -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Animal welfare advocate and political activist. Correspondence, writings, notes, newspaper clippings, advertisements, printed matter, and photographs, primarily relating to Spira's work in the animal welfare movement after 1974.

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